Dean Huijsen shrugs off pressure of being Real Madrid’s most expensive defender

New signing says Spanish giants are ‘club of my life’Huijsen feels he is good fit for Xabi Alonso’s style of play“I don’t care,” Dean Huijsen said, and there was a shrug to go with his answer. The former Bournemouth player had just become the most expensive defender in Real Madrid’s history for £50m, but while the 20-year-old talked about “living a dream” on the day he was presented at their Valdebebas training ground, the price didn’t seem to bother him much. Not least because nothing did. “I’m quite calm,” he said. “I am me and I am going to live my life and I do what I like most.“Madrid is the club of my life, I think,” Huijsen had said when he stepped on to the stage in the basketball arena, tapped the mic and asked: “Can you hear me?” He is the son of Dutch footballer Donny, who was sitting in the front row with Huijsen’s mother Mascha Wijsmuller. The family moved to southern Spain when Dean was five and as a boy he was mad about Málaga, although he said here that Sergio Ramos was his idol. Continue reading...

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